Dec 11, 2017

The biggest bus terminal and busiest morning area in New York City has been shaken by a very real terror attack. The Port Authority at 42nd and 8th was the scene where a device exploded but exploded early. This could have been so much worse. It’s a lucky day for NYC but the war against terror continues…

An ISIS-inspired would-be suicide bomber set off a homemade explosive device at the Port Authority Bus Terminal subway station Monday morning, seriously wounding himself and injuring three others, law enforcement sources said.

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The man — a 27-year-old Brooklyn man identified by high ranking police sources as Akayed Ullah — had wires attached to him and a 5-inch metal pipe bomb and battery pack strapped to his midsection as he walked through the Manhattan transit hub. The man partially detonated the device, which he was carrying under the right side of his jacket, prematurely inside the passageway to the A, C and E trains at Eighth Avenue and West 42nd Street around 7:40 a.m., sources said.

Investigators briefly spoke to the suspect who told them he made the explosive device at the electrical company where he works.
He is in custody and police are already at his home in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn.
The 27-year old terrorist is originally from Bangladesh and has been in America for 7 years.

Video of the moment the explosion went off and there was a stampede of commuters: